Hay and straw puller.



No. 819,798. PATENTED MAY 8, 1906 S. RAY.

HAY AND STRAW FULLER.

APPLICATION FILED 0UT.21, 1905.

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HAY A'ND STRAW PULLER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Yatented May 8, 1906.

Application filed October 21, 1905. Serial No. 288,745.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SEVRIN RAY, a citizen of the United States, residingat the city of Racine, county of Racine, and State of Tisconsin, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Hay and Straw Pullers, of whichthe following is a specification.

It is a well-known fact that when straw, hay, or other stacked fodderhas stood long in the open and the top exposed to rain, snow, and frostit becomes hard and forms a stiff crust, which cannot be readilyremoved, which crust is preferably left on, as it forms a protectingroof to the dry straw or hay below.

The object of my invention is to provide a device by which the straw,hay, or other fodder may be readily pulled from the side or body of thestack without cutting or displacing the top of the stack or without inany way exposing the remaining fodder to the in jurious action of theelements.

The construction of my device is explained by reference to theaccompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a side view. Fig. 2represents a transverse section drawn on line X X of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3represents a transverse section drawn on line Y Y of Fig. 1.

Like parts are identified by the same reference-letters throughout theseveral views.

My invention comprises, amom other things, a penetrating spear A,provided with a series of pulling-hooks B B and an operating-handle G.The spear A preferably comprises a central blade D and two side bladesor flanges E E, which serve to strengthen the blade D and make it morerigid. The hooks B are preferably made successively lon er from thepoint F toward the handle, *here by the instrument is more readilyinserted into a stack. The shank G is provided with two longitudinalsaw-slits H H, formed at right angles to each other for the receptionofthe upper end of the spear, one of said slits being formed for thecentral blade D and the other for the two side blades or flanges E.

It will be obvious that the slits H not only provide a convenient meansof attaching the spear, but when thus attached it is prevented by saidflanges from turning in the shank, as it might otherwise do when thespear and hooks are being turned in a stack.

I is a ferrule of ordinary construction which serves to prevent theshank from splitting. The several pulling-hooks B are provided on theirrespective sides with strengthening-flanges J, which taper from thespear outwardly to the point of said hooks, while the opposite sides ofrespective flanges E are provided with a plurality ofstrengtheningflanges K, which diverge upwardly from the respective sideflanges.

It will be understood that when the hay or straw is deposited in a stackit becomes formed into horizontal layers one upon another from the baseof the stack to the top.

In using my device it is usual to insert the blade with thepulling-hooks in a horizontal position upon one side thereof, in whichposition they are more easily inserted between the layers of fodder.When the instrument has been thus inserted, it is given a quarter of aturn, when the hooks will engage the fodder above or beneath the blade,it depending, of course, upon which way the blade is turned, when thehooks thereby will be caused to penetrate the fodder, and when this isdone the instrument is withdrawn from the stack and a large amount offodder will be drawn out with it. It will now be understood that thusturnin the instrument between the layers of the fo dder would have atendency to loosen the spear from the shank if the spear were connectedwith the shank in an ordinary cylindrical socket. This tendency is,however, overcome by connecting the spear to the handle by the deviceillustrated in Fig. 2, in which the angular flanges on the spear engagethe saw-cuts in the shank and prevent the spear from being turned.

To facilitate turning the instrument when inserted in a stack, Ipreferably provide the shank G with the handle C, which is secured atright angles thereto by the Ushaped bracket K and serves as a lever tofacilitate turning the hooks and spear when thus embedded in the stack.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a device for pulling fodder from a stack the combination of alongitudinal blade, an operating-handle and a plurality of pulling-hooksformed on one side of said longitudinal blade.

2. The combination of a longitudinal blade, an operating-handle and aplurality of pulling-hooks formed upon one side of said blade, saidhooks being successively longer from the point toward the handle.

3. The combination of a longitudinal blade provided on its respectivesides with longitudinal flanges; an operatin -hand1e secured to one endof said blade an a plurality of pulling-hooks secured to one side ofsaid blade, said hooks being successively longer from the point towardthe handle, substantially as set forth.

4;. The combination of a longitudinal blade provided With longitudinalstrengthening-flanges, a vplurality of pulling-hooks successively longerfrom the point toward the handle, each of said hooks being provided withstrengthening-flanges and an operatinghandle secured to one end of saidlongitudinal blade.

5. The combination of a longitudinal blade provided upon its respectivesides with ing-handle, the shank of which is provided With longitudinalslits formed at right angles to each other for the reception of thelongi--' tudinal blade and flanges, said blade being provided with aplurality of pulling-hooks which are successively longer from the pointtoward the handle, all substantially as and for the purpose specified. 1

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature in the presence of twoWitnesses.

SEVRIN RAY. Witnesses:

CARL RAY, E. M. RAY.

